Where to Enjoy a Feast of the Seven Fishes Dinner on Christmas Eve
BY Georgette Gilmore For Southern Italians and Italian-Americans, Christmas Eve is celebrated with a Feast of the Seven Fishes. The special meal typically consists of seven (for the seven sacraments) different seafood dishes and is believed to have originated in Southern Italy, where it is known as The Vigil (La Vigilia). The tradition of...
Maker of Nutella and Tic Tacs Confident in Family Hands
For years, investment bankers have beaten a path to the door of Ferrero SpA—the Italian maker of Tic Tacs, hazelnut spread Nutella, and Kinder chocolate eggs—dangling proposals to take the company public or sell out to a bigger rival. Just last year, Mars Inc. expressed interest in the company, while Nestlé SA NESN.VX -0.91% has looked at Ferrero f...
Trustees Award: Ennio Morricone
In addition to the GRAMMY Awards, The Recording Academy presents Special Merit Awards recognizing contributions of significance to the recording field, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award and Technical GRAMMY Award. In the days leading up to the 56th GRAMMY Awards, GRAMMY.com will present the tributes to the 2014 Special Merit...
A Message from OSIA National President for Columbus Day 2014
More than five hundred years ago, a strong man with an unmistakably Italian name took a world divided in half and made it whole. When Cristoforo Colombo crossed a huge, dark ocean, he joined the Old World of Europe to the New World of what was to become America. His voyage changed the world forever. Little did he know that one day 29 U.S. citi...
Francesca Leonardini, una perfetta wedding planner
Oltre settemila matrimoni in 27 anni di lavoro. Dalle richieste degli indiani, dove i matrimoni durano tre giorni, all'ambientazione stile Halloween. Lei, Francesca Leonardini, genovese ma da quasi 40 anni in America, dove è arrivata con i genitori all'età di sei anni, cura ogni minimo dettaglio e capriccio. Perché la wedding planner, figu...
Bonnie Tiburzi: Italian of the Week
Bonnie Tiburzi was born on August 31, 1948, in Connecticut. Her father was a pilot during WWII with the Air Transport Command and TWA. He later started his own regional airline called Tiburzi Airways. By the time she was 12, Bonnie had already learned how to work the instruments of several different planes and her father had started to give her pro...
Announcing our 35th Anniversary Year!
by NOIAW It's hard to believe that the summer has come to a close and fall is upon us. The end of summer may be bittersweet, but it's also a time for new beginnings. Here at NOIAW, we are excited to kick off our 35th Anniversary year — and we're inviting you to join us in making it our most memorable year yet!If you're curious about our hi...
Joy Mangano: Italian of the Week
Joy Mangano was born on February 15, 1956, in New York to Italian American parents who owned a school bus and airport shuttle business. As a child, she enjoyed taking apart various products and putting them back together. She enjoyed math and mechanics, and graduated with honors from high school a year early. When she was a teenager, she developed...
Call for Papers for 2017 Annual Conference: Italian Sonorities and Acoustic Communities
April 27-29, 2017 JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTEQueens College, City University of New York25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan In his 1983 book Acoustic Communication, Barry Truax defined acoustic communities as "any soundscape in which acoustic information plays a pervasive role in the li...
The Florentine Launches Contemporary Italian Literary Magazine
Our friends at The Florentine (Florence's English language news magazine) have announced their plans to publish a bilingual literary review featuring short stories, poems, and illustrations by contemporary Italian writers and artists. The first issue of TheFLR (The Florence Literary Review) will be released in October 2016. The goal of the project...
U.S.-EU trade talks are vital, must continue: Italian minister
A free trade deal being negotiated by the United States and the European Union will be reached, but the talks will take more time than originally expected, Italy's trade and industry minister said. The U.S. and the EU have been negotiating the TransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) for three years, and with no agreement in sight,...
Reps. Pascrell, Tiberi Offer Support to Italy in Aftermath of Earthquake
U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) and Pat Tiberi (R-OH), co-chairs of the Italian-American Congressional Delegation, offered condolences and solidarity with the Italian Government and the people of Italy in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake last month. Pascrell and Tiberi have authored a House resolution, introduced with...
